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Ellen Meloy: Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

Ellen Meloy: The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky

Kenneth I. Hepland: DEFIANT GARDENS: Making Gardens in Wartime.

Abell, Sam: Seeing Gardens

Anderton, Stephen: Urban Sanctuaries

Armitage, Allan: all, especially Armitage’s Garden Perennials and Armitage’s Manual for Annuals, Biennials and Half-Hardy Perennials

Birnbaum & Kaiser: Pioneers of American
Landscape Design

Capon, Brian: Botany for Gardeners

Chatto, eth: all, especially Green Tapestry

Conder, Josiah: Landscape Gardening in Japan

Conran & Pearson: The Essential Garden Book

Cooper, Guy & Gordon Taylor: all, especially Paradise Transformed & Gardens for the Future

Darke, Richard: all, especially The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses

Dirr, Michael: Dirr’s Hearty Trees & Shrubs and Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

Domer, Dennis: Alfred Caldwell

Druse, Ken: all, especially The Natural Shade Garden

Duthie, Pam: Continuous Bloom

Grese, Robert: Jens Jensen

Hartlage, Richard: Bold Visions for the Garden

Jarman, Derek: Derek Jarman’s Garden

Jellicoe, Susan & Geoffrey: Modern Private Gardens

Kingsbury, Noël: The New Perennial Garden

Kirt, Russell: Prairie Plants of the Midwest: Identification and Ecology

Lacy, Allan: all, especially In a Green Shade

Levine, Ketzel: Plant This!

McClure, Susan: The Midwest Gardener’s Book of Lists

Ogren, Thomas: Allergey-Free Gardening

Oudolf, Piet: all, especially Designing with Plants

Perényi, Eleanor: Green Thoughts

Pope, Nori & Sandra: Color in the Garden

Rybczynski, Witold: A Clearing in the Distance

Schröder, Thies: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Europe

Spacemaker Press: Designed Landscape Forum 1

Sternberg & Wilson: Landscaping with Native Trees

Tankard, Judith: The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman

Tishler, William: Midwestern Landscape Architecture

Valder, Peter: Garden Plants of China

Van Sweden, James: Gardening with Nature